The Military Budget By Robert Gard February 27, 2014 Your Feb. 26 editorial “A Military Budget to Fit the Times” was bold and important. The editorial laid out the reasons our inflated defense budget is having an inverse impact on our national security. As we continue to overspend for unneeded defense programs, we reduce our […]

Director of Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Kingston Reif, joins The Jeff Santos Show to discuss the first-step deal with Iran.  

Progress With Iran as Negotiations Continue in Vienna The United States and its international partners in the P5+1 (China, Russia, France, United Kingdom and Germany) sat down with Iran this week to begin to lay out the details of a final deal. So far, implementation of the November 24 Joint Plan of Action, which provides […]

Obama Shares Rouhani’s Challenge Selling Any Deal Reached By Indira A.R. Lakshmanan February 18, 2014 U.S. President Barack Obama and Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have one thing in common: Both have voiced doubts that the talks starting today in Vienna will produce a deal to curtail Iran’s nuclear program. That’s only in part […]

What’s the Alternative to a Comprehensive Iran Nuclear Deal? By Jasmine Ramsey February 14, 2014 As I mentioned here, the debate over US military action to prevent an Iranian nuclear weapon was mostly on the back burner last year, but as Iran and six world powers known as the P5+1 head to Vienna to negotiate […]